Over the weekend I pounded out my second ever dress!  Actually, it’s a “jumper” but it can be worn as a dress… I used this great early 1960s Simplicity which includes options for a pencil skirt jumper or a fuller skirt jumper along with the pattern for a blouse!  The pattern is one of many…

Over the weekend my mom visited to help me in making my very first dress!  Out of the array of vintage patterns I’ve been collecting, I selected what I thought to be the easiest to make – albeit not my favorite – Butterick 3992, a wonderful 1960s number that required only 4 pieces to make!…